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situation in guantanamo a state department representative stuck to their fish a line that president obama remains committed to closing the facility but with no sign of any real substance towards doing that prisoners are being driven to desperation says former guantanamo detainee back. to be a will and i don't think the will exists certainly if you've still got people who want time and will eleven years since the invasion of afghanistan and there's no practical will to send them these individuals to places where they're supposed to have a basic normal life and i don't know when the will is going to come when still problems that were instituted at the time of bush not being cleared at the time of the hunger strike. is an action of desperation there you know very well in guantanamo but the only way you can get sure rights is by taking extreme measures do you view this is that the religious abuses are still taking place the prisons are still complaining about those things through the noise and even one of them has just recently written something through his lawyer in the american papers and w
situation in guantanamo a state department representative stuck to their fish a line that president obama remains committed to closing the facility but with no sign of any real substance towards doing that prisoners are being driven to desperation says former guantanamo detainee back. to be a will and i don't think the will exists certainly if you've still got people who want time and will eleven years since the invasion of afghanistan and there's no practical will to send them these...
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it though that if it did let's just say hypothetically it did pass the senate how likely is it that obama will veto the bill i mean we've heard this kind of rhetoric before where he said he'd veto the controversial n.b.a. amendment on the national defense authorization act and he didn't do that. well right now i think we have every reason to believe that they would follow through on it this is something that's been at it through different agencies and at the highest levels and i know it wasn't issued lightly but i just want to cross that bridge when we come to it and the question is if it's. just a couple of tweaks what happens then yeah and we can't wait around until you know what to expect that we ought to have to prevent this before it gets about point but really quickly about thirty seconds left but why do you think that's been so under reported in the media and i mean basically it's been passed through the same week that there's two major tragedies being covered virtually nobody coverage that's a good question and i don't have an answer this is a big threat to privacy probably bigger
it though that if it did let's just say hypothetically it did pass the senate how likely is it that obama will veto the bill i mean we've heard this kind of rhetoric before where he said he'd veto the controversial n.b.a. amendment on the national defense authorization act and he didn't do that. well right now i think we have every reason to believe that they would follow through on it this is something that's been at it through different agencies and at the highest levels and i know it wasn't...
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state of affairs in guantanamo a state department representative to the official line that president obama stays committed to closing the facility meanwhile the situation is edging towards catastrophic says the tenant colonel barry when god and the to one of the prisoners . my client can dari had lost about one third of his body weight he now when he stands i can put my hands around his waist that's how much weight he has lost and i'm here to tell you the situation in one town i'm obey is becoming a humanitarian catastrophe these men have been there for eleven and a half years ninety five percent of them ninety five percent of them have no allegations let alone have a trial an opportunity to defend themselves i think that what we need is some leadership here from washington we have the administration on one hand saying we want to close guantanamo bay but then in two thousand and ten saying that indefinite detention is the way forward if two americans were captured would we then argue that those men can be held until our war on the physical emotion of terror ends would that be the u.s. posi
state of affairs in guantanamo a state department representative to the official line that president obama stays committed to closing the facility meanwhile the situation is edging towards catastrophic says the tenant colonel barry when god and the to one of the prisoners . my client can dari had lost about one third of his body weight he now when he stands i can put my hands around his waist that's how much weight he has lost and i'm here to tell you the situation in one town i'm obey is...